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10/13/2017 |
9:10 AM - 10:10 AM
| West Ballroom at Shalala Student Services Building
The Role of Hearing Aids in Improving Learning Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment in Selected School for the Deaf in Kenya.
Purpose:
We sought to investigate the role of hearing aids in enhancing learning outcomes of children with Hearing Impairment in selected school for children with hearing impairment in Kenya.
Methods:
58 participants were randomly sampled from an accessible population of children from 3 different schools for children with hearing impairment in Kenya. Differences with and without hearing aids were measured for the Ling sounds, for a document review of the sampled learners’ performance report cards comparing the school performance of the children before and after they were fitted with hearing aids, and on a questionnaire about quality of life. Data was collected from 58 parents and 7 teachers.
Results:
The results show substantive test score increases, improvement in detection, discrimination, and identification of sounds when using hearing aids in the classroom, as well as reported benefit in the activities of daily living.
Conclusions:
The use of hearing aids improved listening, verbal communication and learning skills. These benefits translated into improved learning outcomes for learners with hearing impairment in the present study.
- To investigate the role of hearing aids in enhancing learning outcomes.
- To compare test performance of learners with and without hearing aids.
- To assess the role of hearing aids in improvement of activities of daily living.
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Karia Mathew (POC,Primary Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Kenyatta University, karia.mathew@ku.ac.ke;
Dr. Mathew Kinyua Karia (PhD)is a Lecturer in the Department of Early Childhood & Special Needs Education-Kenyatta University (Nairobi-Kenya). He teaches in the area of Speech and Language Pathology. He is also working in various Kenyan hospitals as a consultant speech therapist.
Dr. Karia holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Neurolinguistics & Phonetics) from Cologne University (Germany), M.A (Linguistics) from Kenyatta University (Kenya), and B.Ed (Arts) from Kenyatta University.
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Luqman Lawal (Co-Author), Starkey Hearing Foundation/ University of Minnesota SPH, Luqman_Lawal@starkeyfoundation.org;
Luqman Lawal MD, MPH is a Public health Physician who serves as the Director of Global health and Research at the Starkey Hearing Foundation.
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Jeffery Larsen (Co-Author), Utah State University , jeffery.larsen@usu.edu;
Jeff Larsen is a faculty member of the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. He works in the adult audiology clinic, teaches courses, and conducts research. His primary interests are speech perception, classroom acoustics, humanitarian audiology, and vestibular outcomes in the case of mild traumatic brain injury.
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Olende Nyindodo (Co-Author), owen_olende@starkeyfoundation.org;
Mr Olede is the director of Global Development at Starkey Hearing Foundation.
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Doris Kwenda (Co-Author), dkwenda@gmail.com;
Doris is a Speech and Language pathologist in Kenya.
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Chalese Buttars (Co-Author), Starkey Hearing Foundation, chalese_buttars@starkeyfoundation.org;
Chalese serves as the Mission Audiologist for the Starkey Hearing Foundation
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